container-tools Usage¶

Basic Usage¶

container-tools has a command wrapper script, so you can invoke the command by the main container script. Here we use the alias cnt. The man page container(1) shows all available container commands.

Create a new container¶

cnt create -n CONTAINER

Note

always use FQDN as container name.

Start an existing container¶

cnt start -n CONTAINER

Attach console to a started container¶

cnt console -n CONTAINER

Stop an existing container¶

cnt stop -n CONTAINER

Delete an existing container¶

cnt remove -n CONTAINER

You may have to stop the container first.

List existing containers on the system¶

List all started and stopped containers of the local system:

cnt list

List all started and stopped containers of the local system as a machine-readable list:

cnt list -f short

List all started and other containers:

cnt list -s -o

Show status of an container¶

Show detailed status of container foo.bar.org:

cnt status -n foo.bar.org